Bale-tie.



No. 885,917. v PATENTED APR. 28, 1908.

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BALE TIE.

APELIUATION FILED HA3. 6 1907.

ATTORNEY State made of a-single wire and is'an imiprovement thedeformation and possible pulling of the ends of theztie, the middleportion of said tie has engaged with the eye.

j Cross heads of the shape shown in the Stowhen ing the Wire aroundaforming pin of separated at a considerable angle or the clearly shownin the drawings of said. Stewart rntrENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM B. FER-BIS, or STERLING, ILLINOIS.

BALE

Specification of Letters Patent.

-TIE,

Eatented April 28', 1908;

Application filed Karena 1907. Serial No. 3 0,914.

Y '0 all whom/it may concern:

Belt known'that 1, WIL IAM D. FERRIS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Sterlin in the county of Wl'lltGSldG and 0% Illinois, haveinvented a certain new and useful Improvement in Bale-Ties,' of whiohthefollowing is a specification.

The "invention relates to j wire bale ties upon the tie set forth in U.S. atent No. 191,192, granted to. L. ,Stew art, May 22, 1877.. l

The object of the invention is to preventcross head out of the eye when,under strain and to render the tie stronger and more nilicient.

. The-invention consists in the construction of the tie as hereinafterset claimed. Y

- In the accom anying drawings-Figure .1 shows the cross head and eye atthe opposite forth and beijn broken away. Fig. 2 shows the cross Similarnumbers of reference indicate like parts.

art atentaforesaid are ordinarily made by suitable sha' e to produce thedesiredconiig oration. vl l'icn the cross beads are thus made it ispractically impossible to bring the parts 1, 2, at the bi ht 3 o'l-thecross head A, closely together. lence, these parts stand curve at thebight is oi considerable rad his as patent. l have found that when thisopening at the bight 3 is relatively large the hook no longer properlyengages, as shown in Fig. 2, with the twisted eye it ll-fllll'U-il onthe o posite end of the tie. This dillioulr-y can he whollyavoidedbbringing the parts I and .2 of the cross heat which lie beyond thr-vhook 4 closely together,- so that the part hears directly upon the part1, and the opening orstrut, w lich when the tie is engaged as shown inFig. 2 bears on the-twisted part of thetie 1n proximity to the eye B,and not onl prevents said cross head hook coming out of t it eye, but

furnishes, through the bearing of part 2 on part 1, and of part 1' onthe tie, a rigid su port rsaidhook which prevents any ten ency.

of that hook to straig iten out when strain is a plied thereto in thedirection of arrow 7. This result is furthersecured by bending bothparts of the loop in the same plane and at an angle 6 to the paralleljuxtaposed parts immediatelyadjacent to the tw1st,'and by forming thebook 4 at the bend.

As it-is obvious that a cross head of this form cannot be produced byben dim the wire aroundv a suitably shaped forming pm, I have devised anew mechanism for making?1 this cross head by first forming a bight anda 00k, then twisting the parts of the bighttogether and then laterallycompressing the resulting eyeand hook into the shape here shown. Saidmechanism is fully set forth and claimed in another application forLetters Patent, Serial N 0. 360,913 filed by me simultaneously herewith.

In a wire bale-tie crosshead, a loop formed by twisting together thedoubled over end and the standing portion of the tie wire and havingboth'bf its parts in the same plane, a bend in said loop located betweenthe extremity thereod' and the twist, a hook formed in one of said partsand at said bend,- the other of said parts being straight fmn'i' thebend to the extremity of the loop, and both parts being in substantiallyclose contact from said extremity .l'ora distance toward the hook.

i In testimony whereof I have ttlllXOIl my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

WlLlJlAM l). l EltltlS.

